Class of 1878

The name of our long-time class president appears in the Necrology column of this issue. Brown closed his career in characteristic fashion. As he some years ago resigned his trusteeship of the College precisely on the completion of twenty years of service, so he resigned the presidency of the Amoskeag Savings Bank on the 25th anniversary of his becoming chief executive officer of the bank. Thereupon the bank created for him the position of chairman of the board, a modern device employed by large corporations to retain the services of their retiring presidents, and proceeded forthwith to fit up a convenient office for his use. When the new office was fully furnished and equipped he was invited to inspect it, which he did, expressing his satisfaction, but saying he was not feeling quite right, and perhaps had better go home. Arriving at home he was seized with a shock, followed by others, and was scarcely conscious thereafter, although he lived about a fortnight. Brown had made a large place for himself in this human world. Classmates are proud of him.

Hayt says California's severe frost of January did his fruit no harm, but fears the late spring (peach and almond tree blossoms are 30 days late) will bring the fruit of his region into direct competition with Eastern fruit. This is assuming that the Eastern spring is not late, too.

So much for his fruit. As to himself he says: "The latter part of January I wasdown at Sa?i Francisco on a visit, and as itwas fashionable I succeeded in getting the'flu,'—not the kind in your nose, but intestinal. I got the clearing out of a lifetime.Some of Mrs. Frary's doughnuts consumedin the 'jo's came up or passed out. If Icould get rid of my sins as easy it would fitme fine for the next. I was in bed four days,the first time I can remember since childhood."

Referring to an expression of approval of Senator Johnson's stand on the Supreme Court issue, he says: "Hiram of Californiahas the habit of playing to the galleries.If he was about sixty-five instead of over 70 he would be with our dear Presidentand take a chance of a place on the Supreme Bench that he has always wanted.Of course 1 am glad he is right. His paper,the Sacramento Bee, is wrong. Just holdyour applause until Hiram has voted."

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Parkhurst, in the intervals when the male member of the firm is not engrossed in his campaigns for the renovation of Hanover Inn and the reform of the Massachusetts penal system, are making a systematic study of geography after the modern method of first hand exploration. They have recently added the Caribbean region to their terra cognita which now includes the Nile valley, the Scandinavian peninsula, the Sandwich Is. lands, and various frontier areas of the American continent. Parkhurst probably does not aspire to the mantle of the late lamented Daniel Pratt, once a hero of the undergraduate world, but he will soon be entitled to it.

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